nena seli

[jan Kanso]

ma Isilan la nena seli li kama pali. kiwen lili mute li tawa sewi li jaki e kon. kon jaki li tawa ma Elopa. kon jaki li ken pakala e tomo tawa kon. tan ni la tomo tawa kon li awen lon ma. jan mute li wile kepeken e tomo tawa kon li ken ala. ona li kepeken e poki tawa ona sama supa monsi li awen.

mi pilin e ni : jan ni o kepeken pona e tenpo ona o kama sona e toki pona.

mu.

[janMato]

[aikidave]

tenpo pini la nena li anpa e telo kiwen lete. nena seli li seli e telo lete. telo mute li tawa anpa tan nena seli. telo wawa li pakala e nasin e tomo. jan lawa li weka e jan mute tan tomo ona. sitelen pi nena wawa li pona tawa mi. sitelen pi nena wawa li pilin ike tawa mi. jan sona li toki ni: mun tu tu la nena wawa li ken pana e seli.

[janKipo]

Picky, picky! I wonder if a picture of a mountain can feel anything. Maybe 'mi pilin ike tan sitelen pi nena wawa.' I know we say the other in English but tp isn't English.

[janMato]

I'm guessing the attempt was "The volcano seems unpleasant to me"

ma nena pi seli loje li kama e pilin ike tawa mi. <-- Not very ambiguous.

But li pilin is supposed to work somewhat like "to feel", wouldn't this be potentially valid?

meji: nena li piline seme?
meli: nena mi li pilin sama pan lili* taso sina ken pilin ala e nena mi.
* muffins

I suppose a picture of a volcano would feel like photographic paper.

Ref: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/feel (27 different meanings for "to feel")

[jan Ote]

[jan Ote]

[janKipo]

Picky, picky, still. I don't think the volcano per se emitted hot water but it did cause the water to flow downward by melting the surrounding (indeed overlaid) glacier, So, 'anpa' is not obviously wrong.

[jan Ote]

Oh, I took "telo kiwen" for lava, with lete for "cool lava".

[janKipo]

And I didn't even think of that (I suppose I would have said 'kiwen telo' but I'm not sure). Of course, the last pictures I saw, the critter was heaving 10+ pound blocks of still frozen ice into a swamp half a dozen miles away.